Little Lord Fauntleroy
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(italics) a children's novel (1886) by Frances H. Burnett.
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a pampered or excessively well-behaved young boy resembling the hero of this book.
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Also called Little Lord Fauntleroy suit. Fauntleroy suit.
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Vanity Fair called him "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and New York Magazine once heralded the two brothers as "NYC’s Most Beautiful Teenage Brothers."
From Fox News • Jan. 19, 2021
They teamed him up with Little Lord Fauntleroy and that didn’t work.
From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2015
While Eliot always maintained that he had a happy childhood, by adolescence this sheltered Little Lord Fauntleroy existence began to chafe.
From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2015
"Chelsea? Is that the Kings Road? I would imagine they wear ruffs and lacy collars when they are playing, and Little Lord Fauntleroy suits," Reeves said.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2014
Mrs. Ogletree even primped her boy Georgie, whom she’d gadded up in a green velvet Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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